The Witness, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. by Mildred Boyer

I keep thinking about the “go back in time and kill baby hitler” trope

On a Walk from Heather Christle’s Paper Crown

Damn, this new Heather Christle book

Just realized that ChatGPT is the perfect metaphor for America, built on false promises and theft

As recipients of Literary Arts' fellowship for publishers, we ask them to divest from genocide. Please sign and share. Free Palestine.

It’s impossible to defend the indefensible

Honored to write something short and bittersweet for CITY OF BRIDGES, an anthology of community edited by dear @jessiepaige.bsky.social and @jrigamonti.bsky.social in celebration of their marriage and all our literary togetherness! Cover art by Zachary Schomburg. Last photo by Christopher Diaz.

Love when I open a magazine and the first poem is fantastic @bridgetlowe.bsky.social @newenglandreview.bsky.social

Instead of the regular wedding hoopla, my partner and I made an anthology to celebrate our marriage & we’re launching it tonight

queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and acting against ICE, against the police, against the carceral + imperial state and its networks across the globe, against the violence of borders. happy pride!

Join us JUNE 9th at MISSISSIPPI PIZZA & ATLANTIS LOUNGE. An OPEN MIC with readings from the editors of the 41st issue of The Pointed Circle as well! Signups at 5:30, event at 6. Bring friends!

JOIN US for a launch event of the 41st issue of THE POINTED CIRCLE! Co-hosted with our friends at Alchemy. Tuesday, JUNE 10 PCC SYLVANIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DOORS 6:30, EVENT 7-8:30 PM Featuring readings by Carolyn Moore Residents Kweku Abimbola and Henneh Kyereh Kwaku

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

Alice Notley won. thank you 💜

Alice Notley, RIP

Hours after the Trump administration proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts from next year's federal budget, hundreds of arts groups in the U.S. were told their grants were canceled.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Great!! Mother Foucault Bookstore in Portland has finally reopened at their new location on Grand (very close to the old location).

TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW APRIL 24TH! The deadline for your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art submission to the 41st issue of The Pointed Circle is due! Join us this year and DIG IN! #art #poetry #booksky #litmag #opensubs #opensubmissions #portland #pnw #fiction #nonfiction

I’ve done group sonnets with my intro poetry classes for years, but just did a group ghazal for the first time & it was a lot of fun. Just decide on the radif (repeated word) & the qafiyah (rhyming sound) at the beginning (the students chose both). Here’s the one we did last week!

My partner’s beautiful essay (her first published nonfiction!) up on @sonorareview.bsky.social

The printed word is very much alive! Submit to The Pointed Circle by April 24. Visit thepointedcirclepdx.com and submit to the email address there. Visual art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction accepted! youtu.be/FJBZlwyaz0A?...

Our fiction contest closes on 4/9. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in the spring 2026 print edition. See the link below for further details: buff.ly/Hx03SHU #writingcommunity

Huge crowd in Portland, OR, and the weather was perfect

“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

Happy National Poetry Month! (Send us your poetry subs until April 15th 🌸)

Our 2025-26 application period will open on April 15th!

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

This residency was life changing. I got to go during fall, and I picked apples and pears and quince everyday. It was amazing.

Read my partner’s amazing, prize-winning (and heartbreaking) story 💛

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Two more weeks to send the @pointedcircle.bsky.social your subs for their 41st issue!

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

“...the machinations behind the narrative revealed, gaining access to the screenwriters underlying intentions and the minutiae that ordinary viewers weren’t privy to.” Jessie Carver’s “[SILENCE],” featured in our Spring 2025 print edition available now. Details: buff.ly/gqIygrG #writingcommunity

When a poem is so good, you want to read it to the stranger sitting next to you at the bar

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

This urgently needed kidney-transplant doc at Brown w/valid visa & order stopping deportation was held at Logan for 38 hrs in spite of court order & then deported. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Ever notice how many of your favorite poets and writers on here have beards? What if you could hear a bunch of them read together? What if you could help a great cause at the same time? I give you Bearded Bards of BlueSky: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.

Get your subs in, writers!! I can answer any questions you have about the theme or process. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Collaborators with the fascists.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

NO OTHER LAND is a truly great film made by a joint Israeli-Palestinian team.It won the Oscar & the BAFTA for best doc this year among other awards worldwide.The Jewish community in Miami & US needs to speak up.Right now.We are become visibly morally bankrupt. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

“We are horrified by the illegal abduction and now indefinite detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a U.S. legal permanent resident—by Department of Homeland Security agents. We unequivocally demand his immediate release from DHS custody.” — 14 House Dems in letter to DHS EVERY House member should say this!

“Last week, Rubio started a new ‘Catch and Revoke’ effort, with ‘AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts,’ to cancel the visas of anyone deemed to be supporting Hamas.”

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

This is my poem in the New Ohio Review. Its about victim blaming, gaslighting, being polite.